DeepMind Gave an AI 'Intuition' by Training It Like a Baby

Babies are bubbly, cuddly, giggly balls of joy. At three months old, they already have intuition about how things around them behave--without anyone explicitly teaching them the rules of the game. This ability, dubbed "intuitive physics," seems extremely trivial on the surface. If I fill a glass with water and set it on the table, I know that the glass is an object--something I can wrap my hands around without it melting into my palms. And if it started levitating, I'd stare then immediately run out the door. Babies rapidly develop this ability by soaking up data from their external environments, forming a sort of "common sense" about the dynamics of the physical world.